Unequal area flexible bay facility layout using ant colony optimisation

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  International Journal of Production Research

• Publication date

  2011-04-01

• Fields of study

  Engineering

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  DOI 10.1080/00207541003614371
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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